Though the country descends into the Great Depression, the bountiful orchards surrounding 1933 San Jose, California continue to sustain powerful economic forces. But not even a year has passed since the infamous Lindberg kidnapping trial when the young heir of the local Walsh & Son department store disappears and his body turns up in San Francisco Bay. Two men are quickly, if wantonly, arrested and held for the crime: an Italian immigrant and a hobo. The powerful, dogmatic editor of the Valley Standard, Albion Munson (Pete Postlethwaite), is convinced the local police have it right. But an enterprising reporter, Jack Daumier (Gabriel Mann), doesn't think so. He's seen the poverty just below the surface of the community and is sensitive to the goals of union organizing. And when he starts asking questions, more and more people line up to stop him: Munson, with a reputation and ideology to maintain; local businesses eager to pin the blame on unionizing troublemakers; local and state politicians desperate to maintain the image of law and order; and lastly, the community at large, easily frightened by the legacy of the Lindberg trial and the immigrants pouring into the country looking for work. When a lynching is planned to take the law into their own hands, the powers that be sit back and wait for it happen. Jack Daumier is desperate to stop it. The Valley of the Heart's Delight is a historical drama based on a true story.

Though the country descends into the Great Depression, the bountiful orchards surrounding 1933 San Jose, California continue to sustain powerful economic forces. But not even a year has passed since the infamous Lindberg kidnapping trial when the young heir of the local Walsh & Son department store disappears and his body turns up in San Francisco Bay. Two men are quickly, if wantonly, arrested and held for the crime: an Italian immigrant and a hobo. The powerful, dogmatic editor of the Valley Standard, Albion Munson (Pete Postlethwaite), is convinced the local police have it right. But an enterprising reporter, Jack Daumier (Gabriel Mann), doesn't think so. He's seen the poverty just below the surface of the community and is sensitive to the goals of union organizing. And when he starts asking questions, more and more people line up to stop him: Munson, with a reputation and ideology to maintain; local businesses eager to pin the blame on unionizing troublemakers; local and state politicians desperate to maintain the image of law and order; and lastly, the community at large, easily frightened by the legacy of the Lindberg trial and the immigrants pouring into the country looking for work. When a lynching is planned to take the law into their own hands, the powers that be sit back and wait for it happen. Jack Daumier is desperate to stop it. The Valley of the Heart's Delight is a historical drama based on a true story.

Though the country descends into the Great Depression, the bountiful orchards surrounding 1933 San Jose, California continue to sustain powerful economic forces. But not even a year has passed since the infamous Lindberg kidnapping trial when the young heir of the local Walsh & Son department store disappears and his body turns up in San Francisco Bay. Two men are quickly, if wantonly, arrested and held for the crime: an Italian immigrant and a hobo. The powerful, dogmatic editor of the Valley Standard, Albion Munson (Pete Postlethwaite), is convinced the local police have it right. But an enterprising reporter, Jack Daumier (Gabriel Mann), doesn't think so. He's seen the poverty just below the surface of the community and is sensitive to the goals of union organizing. And when he starts asking questions, more and more people line up to stop him: Munson, with a reputation and ideology to maintain; local businesses eager to pin the blame on unionizing troublemakers; local and state politicians desperate to maintain the image of law and order; and lastly, the community at large, easily frightened by the legacy of the Lindberg trial and the immigrants pouring into the country looking for work. When a lynching is planned to take the law into their own hands, the powers that be sit back and wait for it happen. Jack Daumier is desperate to stop it. The Valley of the Heart's Delight is a historical drama based on a true story.